A true Victorian gentleman will always come to the aid of a lady, especially if he is secretly in love with her, like the young London lawyer Malcolm Ross with the daughter of the famous amateur Egyptologist and collector of antiquities Abel Trelawney. But Margaret’s worries and fears are by no means groundless - her father lies without memory between life and death, and his hand is covered with terrible bloody wounds of unknown origin... What happened? Who attacked the lover of ancient wonders in a locked office? Is it connected with the artifacts placed there in a strange order, which he strictly forbade to touch or rearrange ?Malcolm Ross searches for the truth, discarding one version after another. And he gradually realizes: the reasons for what happened are far from ordinary and reasonable...